Throw Away Your Sunblock and Nicoderm!

[Crushy]

The Past::::

Why is the sun so bad for my skin?

The sun's rays, which are called ultraviolet A and ultraviolet B rays (UVA and UVB rays) damage your skin. This leads to early wrinkles, skin cancer and other skin problems.

Being in the sun often over time, even if you don't burn, can lead to skin cancer. A tan is the body's desperate attempt to protect itself from the sun's harmful rays.

Are tanning booths safer?

No. Tanning booths use ultraviolet rays. Makers of the booths may claim that they use "harmless" UVA rays. But both UVA and UVB rays cause skin damage. While UVA rays take longer than UVB rays to damage the skin, they go deeper into the skin than UVB rays.

Now:::::::

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4225195.stm

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Sunshine might stop certain cancers from growing, including skin cancers, according to two new studies.
One found it helped beat the deadly skin cancer malignant melanoma. The other found the sun helped with non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
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Hey! Tobacco is also known to prevent cancer. So get out that sunbed and a packet of cigarettes now.....!!!

<font size="1">It's for your own good.</font> images/smiley_icons/icon_biggrin.gif

[MissySpitfire]

<font size="1">So much for the so called indisputable scientific evidence, eh?...I love how we always come to find that they have NO IDEA what they are talking about....SUCKAHS!!!</font>

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[Lepus]

I am getting really sick of being told one year that something is great for me and I have to do it NOW or I WILL DIE only to find out a few years later that the miracle cure is actually harmful. Remember how good pasta was for us? Now it gives us diabetes. And alcohol is bad, bad, bad. Now you should drink one drink per day. Doctors can kiss my ass. I will do what I want since in the end I don't really think it makes that much difference. I think it is in our genes what illnesses we will develop and which we will not. Sure we can do some things to hasten our demise or at least to tempt fate like smoking, but then I have known people who have died from old age after smoking 2 packs a day. I had an English professor who died at age 75 from causes completely unrelated to her 2 pack a day habit. Sure, her voice was shot but that was just part of her charm.

But in the end, I don't think anyone really knows. Enjoy your life and choose moderation instead of extremism.

[draco dormiens]

I wonder how many scientific studies are done to study the effects of extremism on the human body. I mean, of course you'll have a higher risk of diabetes if all you eat are simple carbs. You may as well be eating table sugar.

[MissySpitfire]

<font size="1">Too much of ANYTHING can kill you...</font>

<font size="1">It's as simple as that.</font>

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[miss_s]

Unless you're taking about grain alcohol. Then you just get pickled. images/smiley_icons/icon_biggrin.gif

[Crushy]

*THUD* Smoking can be hazardous to your health . . .

VENDING MACHINE RETALIATES!!

2003: A German man landed in the hospital with cuts and bruises after a cigarette vending machine fell on him. When the machine failed to deliver his pack, the zealous smoker attacked it with such force that he brought it, along with much of the wall behind, down on his head.

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[Lepus]

Somebody was having a nic fit.